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Knowing is not enough, we must APPLY. Willing is not enough, we must DO. -Bruce Lee

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Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

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DHSC late in submitting evidence to 2023-24 NHS pay round

Patients should be supported to stop antidepressants ‘gradually’

NHS emergency care plan criticised over workforce omission

Coroner rules deaths of two nurses from Covid-19 as industrial disease

Unfair dismissal claim struck out in case between RCN and its former chair

Norfolk nurses latest to pilot ‘sponge on a string’ procedure

Major London trust appoints new chief nurse

Nurses among those back on strike in Northern Ireland

Trusts launch ‘legacy mentor’ retention scheme for nurses

NMC set to miss fitness-to-practise backlog target

NHS ‘haemorrhaging’ senior emergency department nurses

NMC approves changes to pre-registration education standards

RCN Wales dismisses proposal of one-off payment for nurses

Views sought on community nurse apprenticeship plans

Striking nursing staff in Liverpool are ‘fed up and want to be heard’

Government sets out plans for expanding mental health crisis facilities

Nursing charity unveils ‘ambitious’ five-year strategy

NHS pay dispute: Unison nurses in Liverpool to strike again

Workforce and education chief nurse receives honorary doctorate

Training film by nurse aims to improve mental health care in practices

Striking nursing associates fear ‘breaking’ under current pressures

Staff shortages mean nurses feel they are ‘failing patients’

Nurse and ambulance staff to strike on same day but ‘not co-ordinated’

Staffing and demand concerns draw mental health nurses to picket line

Try walking in our shoes for a shift, nurses challenge politicians

Striking nurses warn staff mental health ‘lowest ever’

RCN members return to picket line for two days of pay strikes

Survey shows half of health visitors in England intend to quit

Lack of response by staff delaying Essex mental health inquiry

Move by Twitter to recognise title ‘nurse’ celebrated by profession

Listed: NHS employers set to see RCN strike action again in February

Nurse strike dates announced for February in England and Wales

Nurse strikes in Scotland paused again to negotiate new proposals

Wave of nurses quit London hospital over workplace stress and pay

Some 60 nurses have resigned from a South London accident and emergency department in the past year because they were overworked and underpaid, a local MP has claimed. Fleur Anderson, Labour MP for Putney, told a House of Commons debate last week that she had…

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International Nurses Day 2023 to focus on ‘future of nursing’

Admiral Nurses to host face-to-face dementia clinics across the UK

Scheme to encourage young people into nursing to launch in Scotland

NHS staff suffering retaliation after speaking up ‘on rise’

RCN members reject new pay and conditions package at Marie Curie

NHS nurses in Wales offered ‘additional financial package’

NHS pressures: Nurses being asked to work corridor shifts

Nurse professor joins board of struggling mental health trust

Charity reports more than 500 nurses using food banks

New talks in Wales to include offer of one-off payment for nurses

NMC issues statement to nursing profession over winter pressures

The UK nursing regulator has issued a statement recognising the "incredibly tough" conditions nurses are working under at the minute. In the statement published today, Andrea Sutcliffe, the chief executive and registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, set out to offer reassurances to nursing…

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Nursing unions to boycott pay review process amid dispute

Unions representing nurses and other health workers have announced today that they are refusing to submit evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body while the current industrial disputes remain unsolved. Today 14 unions, including the Royal College of Nursing and Unison, have instead called for…

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Relying on agency nurses carries patient safety risks – study

Agency nurses are not effective substitutes for permanent, experienced registered nurses in terms of patient safety, researchers have warned. The study, published in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, looked into the impact of nurse understaffing on mortality in patients. “It shows that concerns over…

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Government puts controversial anti-strike bill before parliament

Granting above-inflation pay deals to public sector workers “is not the sensible way to proceed”, the business secretary said today, as he unveiled further details of anti-strike legislation in parliament. In a statement to the House of Commons, Grant Shapps set out government plans for…

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Minister’s discharge plans ‘not possible’ without more staff

Thousands of patients are set to be discharged from hospitals into community care settings, through an emergency package of measures launched by the health and social care secretary. Speaking in parliament yesterday, Steve Barclay confirmed steps that the government is taking to support the health…

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Critical care nursing body champions statement on social justice

The British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) has vowed to “extinguish” biases and stereotypes in critical care nursing as part of a newly published statement on social justice. The pioneering statement was developed in collaboration with a number of nursing staff who centre equality,…

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Latest talks between unions and minister fail to head off more strikes

A much-heralded meeting today between union leaders and the health secretary has failed to resolve the ongoing dispute over NHS pay or avert further planned strike action this month. Some health unions said they had been left “bitterly” disappointed by the meeting, but others felt…

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Nurses voice concern over government’s new ‘anti-strike’ law plans

Nurses have raised concerns about plans for controversial strike legislation. which they believe could attack democratic rights and drive more staff out of the profession. Last week, the government outlined early proposals for the introduction of legislation that it claimed would ensure “minimum safety levels”…

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